Overview
Our Mission
Our mission is to deliver clean water solutions to the greatest number of people in need, at the lowest cost per person, by developing sustainable and scalable infrastructure projects. Providing access to clean water helps ensure a pathway to mitigating mortality and morbidity while alleviating malnutrition, gender inequality, and disparities in economic opportunity.
By THINKING BIGGER, we resolve to lead the effort to end the global water crisis.
OUR PURPOSE
As beneficiaries of infrastructure, education, and opportunity, we feel compelled to provide the less fortunate with the most basic human right of access to clean water and sanitation.
OUR TEAM
Drawing on our experience as finance and business development professionals, we develop water infrastructure projects across the developing world, where people are facing acute water crises.
OUR SOLUTION
We collaborate with strategic partners to raise financing for Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) that deliver water infrastructure solutions throughout the world.
THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS
663 million people, about 9% of the global population, lack access to improved drinking water sources. More children die everyday from a lack of clean water and sanitation than from malaria, HIV/AIDS, and measles combined.
Access to potable water and sanitation is a fundamental human right, and essential to a healthy environment and suitable quality of life. Further, it is beneficial to global economic growth; every $1 spent on water and sanitation is estimated to yield a $4 economic return.
The Crux of the Crisis: Scale, Funding, & Sustainability
SMALL IN SCALE
The majority of water initiatives remain focused on providing relief to one village at a time, rather than large-scale projects that reach the most people in the most cost-effective and sustainable manner.
INSUFFICIENT FUNDING
The primary constraint in the fight to alleviate the water crisis is funding. For most developing countries, access to traditional sources of external financing are grossly inadequate to fund water and sanitation projects.
LIMITED VESTED INTEREST
Governments and parastatals are often passive observers of water projects in their regions, leading to limited interest in success or failure of these facilities.
Our Approach: Think BIGGER
Business Approach
Engage with local governments and utilities to develop sustainable water infrastructure projects on a Public-Private-Partnership basis. Leverage our strong business development skills and extensive experience to work directly with government officials, utilities, law firms, financial institutions, and contractors to execute these projects.
Sustainability
The Public-Private-Partnership structure ensures that the project will be maintained over the life of the concession. Bigger projects achieve economies of scale which enable the sourcing of water from a sustainable resource.
Innovative Funding
Work with strategic partners to raise money and apply this capital as equity in Public-Private-Partnerships using a "Capital Light" funding structure that raises debt at attractive rates from Development Finance Institutions and Export Credit Agencies. Water consumers then pay an affordable price for the clean water we provide to repay the debt over the life of the concession.
Scalability
Large-scale water infrastructure projects not only meet the needs of more people, but they also allow for additional villages and water treatment plants to be added to the network of pipes as funding permits.